If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
BARBARA BUSHPeople who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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Believe in something larger than yourself … to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.
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I’m not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I’m the enforcer. I’m the one who writes them a letter and says ‘Shape up!’ He writes, ‘You’re marvelous.’
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society’s dream, her own personal dream.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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You get nothing done if you don’t listen to each other.
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